India’s Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy (Record no. 49251)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780674295995
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Classification number 342.54 KHO
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Personal name Khosla, Madhav
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Title India’s Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc Harvard University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2020
Place of publication, distribution, etc Cambridge
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Extent 219
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Summary, etc An Economist Best Book of the Year<br/>How India's Constitution came into being and instituted democracy after independence from British rule.<br/>Britain's justification for colonial rule in India stressed the impossibility of Indian self-government. And the empire did its best to ensure this was the case, impoverishing Indian subjects and doing little to improve their socioeconomic reality. So when independence came, the cultivation of democratic citizenship was a foremost challenge.<br/><br/>Madhav Khosla explores the means India's founders used to foster a democratic ethos. They knew the people would need to learn ways of citizenship, but the path to education did not lie in rule by a superior class of men, as the British insisted. Rather, it rested on the creation of a self-sustaining politics. The makers of the Indian Constitution instituted universal suffrage amid poverty, illiteracy, social heterogeneity, and centuries of tradition. They crafted a constitutional system that could respond to the problem of democratization under the most inhospitable conditions. On January 26, 1950, the Indian Constitution-the longest in the world-came into effect.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Constitutional History India
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Ambedkar, B. R. (Bhimrao Ramji) 1891-1956.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Democratization India
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Democracy India
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